As related in a letter dated the following day, General
George Washington wrote to Congress from his
headquarters in  Trenton, New Jersey, to report that
he had transported much      

of the Continental Army’s stores and baggage across the
Delaware River to Pennsylvania on December 2, 1776.

His famous crossing of the Delaware would come less than
one month later.

In his letter, Washington wrote, "Immediately on my arrival
here, I ordered the removal of all the military and other stores
and baggage over the Delaware, a great quantity are already
got over, and as soon as the boats come up from Philadelphia,
we shall load them, by which means I hope to have every
thing secured this night and tomorrow if we are not disturbed."

General George Washington’s army settled into a second
season at Morristown, New Jersey, on December 1, 1779.

On November 30, 1876, Yale defeated Princeton, 2-0, in
Hoboken, New Jersey in the first collegiate football game
played on Thanksgiving.

The football was oval and made of leather, the Times noted,
"similar to those used in Rugby Union rules." The game
resembled rugby more than a present-day football game.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A holiday staple returned to
Portland on Wednesday: Rudolph is back!

The red nose of the iconic “White Stag” sign on the west
end of the Burnside Bridge is always illuminated the day
before Thanksgiving.

The Rose City tradition started back in 1959 as a gift when
“Elizabeth Blair Hirsch suggested it and her husband Harold
S. Hirsch made it happen, adorning the sign for his sportswear
company White Stag,” the city said.

In the 1940s, the sign used to be an ad for "white satin sugar."
It didn’t have the deer logo. Then, the building housed the
"white stag" sportswear company (below).

The sign was named a historic landmark in the 70s. In the 90s
the letter was changed to say "Made in Oregon, Old Town" as
we know it today.

The University of Oregon started leasing space in
the building in 2006 and bought the block in 2015.

George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001

On November 29, 2001, English musician and songwriter
George Harrison died of lung cancer that had spread to
his brain at the age of 58.

Harrison achieved global fame as a member of the Beatles
and went on to a successful solo career that included
frequent collaborations with many of the foremost
musicians of his generation.

The youngest member of the Beatles, Harrison was born
in Liverpool in 1943 and joined the group, then known as
the Quarrymen, when he was barely 15.